Self-adjustable water-hoist conveyer



1. w. EMERSON SELF ADJUSTABLE WATER HOIST CONVEYER.

APFLICATIQH FILED AFR.15.'19I6.

1,304,465. Patented May 20, 1919.

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JOHN w. EMERSON, or 'scoTLAnn, ARKANSAS.

SELF-ADJUSTABLE W'ATER-I-IOIST CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Application filed April 15, 1916. Serial No. 91,422.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. EMERSON, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Scotland, in the county of Van Buren and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Self-Adjustable Water-Hoist Conveyer for Conveying WVater in a Bucket from a Source of Supply to a Distant Station, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore carrier-frames adapted to travel on a cable and propelled by means of a winch and rope have been used for conveying buckets; but such conveyers are not adapted for hoisting and quickly conveying water from wells the same as from springs over hilly ground as well as on a level surface, and for simple and self-adjustable install-' ment and staying in adjustment, as contemplated by my economical invention, that is adapted to various grounds, and that has a simple and durable release of the bucket from the carriage to water and connection back to carriage.

My invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- The general elevation showing the entire combination operating isshown in Figure 1; the side view of the carriage, Fig. 2; the front view, Fig. 3; and the perspective view of the reel, Fig. 4.

The letter D designates a double inclined track formed of a cable or telephone wire fixed to a porch post 0 and a stake N as suitable supports at its ends and stretched by pushing it upon a long suitable frame G having a cover H hung to a projection F, that is on a pole E, located far enough away from the porch post C to form the double inclined track D.

A cable operating collapsible reel-drum R bifurcated into cord-grooves at its ends 6, having a handle 9, is journaled at h at the station and end of the track D, where the water is to be delivered, and a cord Q fixed to the small end i (also for rapid winding in the large end 6) of the reeldrum and extended over a single pulley w, mounted in the open bottom of the long frame G. The cord is from thence extended and connected to the bucket bail through the carriage-frame adapted to travel on the track D as required to convey a bucket back and forth from the well, spring orsource of water-supply M to the station wherethe water is to be used.

Z is the shank of the carriage frame, which crooks outward to let the carriage pass the frame G- and go into the tilting frame L. The upper end of the frame at 0 is doubled over. Between the doubled portion is mounted a single track-pulley adapted to travel on the wire D, as required to suspend and operate the bucket-carriage on the double inclined track. At the lower end m the frame has a sharp bailturning point, and from that end doubles back on lines parallel to the front side as far upward as at n, where it connects to the shank of the frame. Through under this connected shoulder is where the cord extends to the bucket bail p resting on the hoisting-pulley which is mounted between the parallel doubled portion. When the carriage goes into the tilting-frame L, the bucket bail, just rolls off the pulley, as indicated by dotted lines, to reach water as the cord is paid out by the reel-drum B. When the bucket 79 is drawn up the sharp bail-turning point at turns the bail right (should it happen to come up wrong) for rolling into the bail rack bow of the frame which is also shown at a. The cord being under the connected shoulder of the lower doubled portion of ing-frame while the track-pulley goes down on the tilting grade. This grade is formed by the cable or wire passing over the grade as shown at W, and through the frame twice as indicated by dotted lines Z, Z, and from thence extended around the stake N. When the wire is stretched this tiltin frame L hangs self-adjustable, always holding its correct tilting grade, a perfect alinement and its upright position.

In the practical use of my invention when a bucket of water is in the source of watersupply M a person at the station where the water is to be delivered can by operating the reel-drum draw the bucket bail up into the bail rack of the carriage-frame, with the small end i of the reel-drum, when the carriage will trip out of the tilting-frame and then the operator can careen the cord into the large end 6 of the winding reel-drum which will rapidly draw the carriage and bucket; up the inclined plane on the track D far enough so that its speed will pass it over the apex and reverse the motion of the light reeldrum and then descend to the pere son at the reel-drum by its speed and force of gravity, as the cord Q is allowed to uncoil from the drum of the reel by the operator, who retains hold of the handle 9 to regulate the speed of the downward movement of the carriage and bucket suspended therefrom, As the cord Q, uncoils from the reel-drum, that part near the end fastened to the bucket bail 79, through the carriage frame at n, doubles back over the carriage frame at a, and doubles back under the single pulley w from the apex of the track D to the reel-drum; so that, when the bucket is emptied, by winding the cord into the drum of the reel 0 the force will be applied to the said carriage frame at 'n, as required to draw the carriage up the inclined track and onto the apex, the carriage and empty bucket will tilt over the apex and descend by speed and force of gravity, to the source of Watersupply to be filled again. Before the carriage enters the tilting-hanger the cord leads into the small end of the reel-drum from whence it was careened, thereby compelling the carriage to operate gently.

It is obvious water can be thus Very quickly, easily and economically conveyed varying distances from'wellsthe same as from springs and over elevations of various heights as well as on a level surface by means of my invention.

What I claim aS new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent therefor, is

1. In a self-adjustable water-hoist conveyer, a single double inclined track having stationary supports at its ends and a fixed pole at its apex and a long frame having a cover attached to the fixed pole and provided with a single pulley for directing a cord in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. In a self-adjustable water-hoist conveyer for conveying water in a bucket, a carriage-frame having the upper end cloubled over and a single track-pulley mounted in said double portion and the lower end doubled and connected to form a shoulder at the lower end of the shank and a hoisting-pulley mounted in said lower double portion and a sharp bailturning point at the lower end and a bail rack bow at the connected shoulder for the bucket bail to hang in, in combination with a cable-Wire track and means for operating the carriageframe on the track for the purposes stated.

3. A self-adjustable water-hoist conveyer, comprising a cable-wire fixed at its ends to stationary supports, a long frame having a cover and to which the cable wire is connected intermediate its ends a pole to which the frame is fixed to produce a double inclined track for a bucket-carriage to travel quickly back and forth over the apex of the track, a single pulley in the long frame that supports the track at its apex for directing a cord, a carriage-frame having a single track-pulley mounted therein to engage the track and a bail rack bow to admit a bucket bail for attaching a cord thereto and a hoisting-pulley in the carriage frame to lower and lift up the bucket, a self-adjustable tilting-frame on the wire over the water to release the bucket having a grade that holds the carriage while the bucket of water is drawn up until the bucket bail lodges in its bail rack how, a reel-drum located at one end of the track, a cord connected with the reel-drum and extended over the single pulley in the long. frame at the apex of the track and connected with the bucket bail in the carriage-frame, all arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

JOHN W. EMERSON. lVitnesses JOHN H. LINDSEY,

MADIsoN C. HOGAN.

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